BCF Texas Hold'em Poker Fundraiser and Festival Recap!
The Bexley Community Foundation hosted its 3rd annual Texas Hold'em Poker Fundraiser and Festival on Friday, January 31, at Jeffrey Mansion. Almost $5,000 was raised to support the Anne and Sam Powers Youth and Recreation Fund grants program!
Special thanks to our sponsors - Specialty Sports Cars, MADFUN Studios, Price's Macho Mustard, Jimmy John's and Seventh Son Brewing Co., and a HUGE thank you to Bexley Rec! We can't wait for next year!
State of the Community!
2025 Bexley State of the Community
Tuesday, March 4, 6:30 pm, Torat Emet, 375 E. Main Street
Save the date for the 2025 Bexley State of the Community Address! Join City of Bexley Mayor Ben Kessler, Bexley City Schools Superintendent Dr. Jason Fine, and Bexley Public Library Director Ben Heckman as they reflect on the achievements and milestones of the past year while previewing the exciting goals, initiatives, and developments on the horizon for Bexley in 2025. Updates from our BCF will also be included throughout the program!
Capital University Libraries and the Department of History proudly present Anne Frank: A History for Today. Curated by the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina, the official U.S. partner of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the Anne Frank exhibition tells the story of Anne Frank against the backdrop of the Holocaust and the Second World War.
The exhibition aims to inform visitors about the history of the Holocaust from the perspective of Anne Frank and her family; to show visitors that differences between people exist in all societies; to encourage visitors to analyze the concepts of intolerance, persecution, exclusion, mutual respect, human rights, democracy, and their meaning for us; and to convince visitors that the creation of a society in which differences between people are respected is not something automatic. This project is funded in part by the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission and the Bexley Community Foundation.
Anne Frank: A History for Today will be on display in Blackmore Library Room 110 from February 3rd-28th, 2025. Guided tours available by appointment Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm; Open Hours Monday through Friday 5pm-8pm, Saturday and Sunday 1pm-5pm.
The annual NOW Festival at Capital University is one of the most comprehensive and diversified celebrations of contemporary art and its creators in the Midwest. Since its founding in 1987, the Festival has one simple yet extremely important mission: to expose the Central Ohio community to international, national, and regional living artists and their work, exposing, exploring, and discussing the role of music in contemporary society. The concert series is eclectic in nature, covering a diverse range of compositional and performance styles.
Capital University will be hosting 3 guest composers for our 2025 Now Festival. Our Composer- in-Residence is Reena Esmail. Dr. Esmail will be working extensively with the choral/vocal and instrumental areas, our student composers, and performing community outreach.
Also joining the festival will be Capital Alumnus, Aaron Quinn. Aaron is a successful composer, performer and improviser. He will be working with the Jazz area for the Wednesday night, February 12 concert, as well as writing and improvisation workshops and off-campus performances
We will also be featuring music from our long-time colleague and NOW Festival founder, Rocky Reuter. Dr. Reuter is an Emeritus Professor of Music, and we will present performances of movements of his string quartet, and a concerto for tuba and wind band. There will be performances and workshops everyday featuring student, faculty and guest performers.
The Festival is funded, in part, with a donation from the Bexley Community Foundation!
Fund of the Month: Bexley Community Foundation Fund!
Gifts to this fund are reinvested in Bexley through our semi-annual grants programs. Organizations, government entities, non-profit institutions and many others are able to apply for grants from this fund. To date, over $1.2 million has been reinvested into the Bexley community from grants through this unrestricted fund.
